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New Young Leadership initiative kicks
off with potluck BBQ on August 15

In an effort to cultivate the next
generation of Jewish leaders, the
Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass
is excited to announce the first of
its Young Leadership events. On
Sunday, August 15 at 5:30 p.m., all
members of the local young adult
Jewish community between the
ages of 21 and ”40ish” are invited
to a potluck BBQ to meet and con-
nect with others in a welcoming
and social environment.

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The BBQ will be the first of a series
of events and programs organized
in collaboration with other local
Jewish organizations such as Adath
Israel, Ohavay Zion Synagogue,
and the Havurah. These future
events will offer a variety of activi-
ties, ranging from educational to
social, but all will be designed to
encourage the strengthening of the
bond between young members of
the local Jewish community. Any-
one who is interested in attending
the BBQ on August 15 or would
like to be included on future events
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Lunch and Learn with the Rabbis

program to begin

Beginning on Tuesday, August 31,
the Lexington community rabbis
will be teaching Torah and con-
ducting discussions on the last
Tuesday of each month at 12:00
noon at the Federation building.

A dairy lunch will be offered at a
nominal charge. The rabbis will be
discussing the holidays, the Torah
portion of the week, and other top-

ics of interest. The first session will
be taught by Rabbi Marc Kline of
Temple Adath Israel.

If you are interested in attending,
please call Judy Wortman at (859)
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The Benefactors Event was held on
May 23 at Portofino Restaurant. Our
guest speaker was Ambassador Danny
Biran of the Israeli Consulate in New
York. Ambassador Biran, who was the
administrator of the rescue operation
and the field hospital in Haiti after the
earthquake, discussed Israel’ s signifi-
cant and under-reported role in the
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Know Your Board 3
President's Message... ......................................................................... 4
Third Opinion .............................. 5
From the Director ....... 6
TAI Religious School teacher leaves enduring legacy 6
Name this deli .............. 7
Awards conferred at JFB Annual Meeting 7
JFS: At your Service .................................... 8
Ken Freedman Scholarship available ............. 9
Statement in response to Gaza Flotilla incident 9
invitation to a movie on Columbus Day, 2010 9

 

 

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Opinion — History repeats itself ....... 1 1
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tion to the Stewart Home’s Jewish students by honoring Shabbat and Jewish holidays. it is a
very special evening for all who participate, volunteers and students alike. Please call Jana at
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lsrael 21c: Living low— and high—tech to the Negev desert ..................................................................... 13
To the Editor ............................ 14
Letter from Natan Sharansky ................ 15
The only Jewish military cemetary outside of lsrael is in Richmond, Virginia .............................. 15
Sim Shalom dedicates new synagogue ...... 16
Opinion —The far away land 16
B’tayavon ......... 17
TAl announces new preschool director .......................... 17
Ask A Rabbi 18
The Lexington Chapter of Hadassah 19
The Lexington Havurah ,...20
Temple Adath lsrael .......... 71
Ohavay Zion Synagogue . ............ 22
Around the Community 2%
Calendar 74

 

 

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Amy Faust Mayer is an experienced
educator, acting coach, and profes-
sional actress. She has worked as an
educator and consultant for more than
fifteen years at schools and perform-
ing arts centers in the Midwest. Amy
served as education coordinator at
Jewish Family Services in Cincinnati,
where she taught parent education
classes and workshops. She is a former
faculty member at the Cincinnati
Reform Jewish High School, where

she taught Jewish history and culture.
Amy is a graduate of the theatre arts
program at Miami University in Ox-
ford, Ohio and completed her graduate
studies at the University of Cincinnati
in education and cognitive develop-
ment. She is a member of the American
Alliance for Theatreéma Education as
well as of Delta Kappa (famma Society,
an international honorary society for
key women educators.

Dr. David Shraberghas roots in both
congregations in Lexington that go
back more than a hundred years. His
grandfather David Shraberg was one
of the Lithuanian Jews whose shtetl
transported itself to Central Kentucky
at the turn of the 720th century. He grew
up at Ohavay Zion, where his grandfa-

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New members begin terms

ther had been a founder. His mother’s
sister was married to one of the early
rabbis at 025. His mother met and
married David’s father, Hyman,
through a blind date. David recently
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his
bar mitzvah at Temple Adath Israel.
Having grown up at both congrega—
tions has given him the sense of unity
and purpose that the whole Jewish
community must strive for. Having
just left a period of service on the
board and the presidency of TAI, he is
more aware of the need for leadership.
He would like to help the Federation
meet the needs of our people locally
and nationally and to enhance the
sense of our common identity with
Israel and its people.

David is blessed with eight children
and four grandchildren and a won-
derful wife, Pat, whose service to the
Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass will
be a hard act to follow. It is one that he
plans to emulate.

Gail R. Cohen represents the Lexing-
ton Havurah on the JFB Board. She is
a past president of the Federation and
has chaired the Campaign Commit-
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resettlement. Gail was president of the
Lexington Chapter of Hadassah. She
also served as Hadassah Region presi-
dent, and is currently a member of the
Hadassah National Board.

A member of Ohavay Zion Synagogue,
she is retired from the University of
Kentucky, where she was a research
associate at the Sanders-Brown Center
on Aging.

Gary Yarus is retired from the Informa-
tion Technology industry. A graduate
of Morehead College and the Uni-
versity of Kentucky, he is originally
from Pikeville, Kentucky. He returned
to Lexington from St. Louis when he
retired in 2006. Gary is a member of
Temple Adath Israel and has served on
its executive committee and its board
of trustees, and has chaired the music
and worship committee. He attends
Shabbat services regularly and partici-
pates in weekly Torah studies.

Gary volunteers as a control room en-
gineer for the Central Kentucky Radio
Eye, a radio reading service for people
who are visually impaired. He also
tutors students at the Ashland Elemen-
tarv School.

Hanna Smith was a social worker for
the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and
Family Services for 21 years. For most
of these years, Hanna headed the fos-
ter care program for medically fragile
children in Fayette County. Before
settling in Kentucky, Hanna worked
for social services agencies in Ohio and
Louisiana in the areas of child protec-
tion, foster care, and adoption.

Since retiring in 2007, Hanna has been
engaged in volunteer work—she is a
Court Appointed Special Advocate
(CASA) for children who are com-
mitted to the state, a board member
of Ohavay Zion Synagogue, and a
member of the Jewish Family Services
committee. She occasionally writes for
Shalom.

Hanna is proud to have received the
Champion of Children Award in 2005
and the Friend of Children Award in
2004.

For recreation, Hanna likes to garden,
sew, or read who-dun—its. She is mar-
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”That's what
friends are
for." We’ve
all said that
over the
years, usu-
ally when we
have asked a friend for a favor or have
been thanked by a friend for some-
thing we have done. I have thought

a lot about this over the summer as I
have tried to visit and be visited by as
many friends as possible. We are all
getting a little older now, some of us
having grandchildren, slowing down
or retiring, and going through chang—
ing health issues. It is a time to cel-
ebrate our relationships and a time to
rejoice in those that are now memories.

 

 

Think of all the shared experiences you
have had with your friends. We hope
most of those memories are happy
ones, but some might be sorrowful.
Think also of those relationships that
have lapsed, for whatever reason.
Sometimes we let our insecurities and

pettiness get in the way and that-can

   

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cost us dearly. It is a lot easier to make
new friends at a younger age—our
minds and our hearts tend to be more
open and we are less set in our ways.

Are your friends mostly your family
members? Do you reach out to others?
Are you open and welcoming? Or do
you say, as I have heard from someone
elderly: “I had friends—I don’t want
or need any more”? We all need people
close to us to share our thoughts, our
hopes, and our concerns. Without
these relationships, we run the risk of
becoming isolated and perhaps a little
brittle and bitter.

I recently had a visit from one of my
oldest friends (in terms of length of
our friendship, not her age). She is
retired now, but a few years ago she
told me that she used our friendship as
a role model for her students. She was
a social worker in the public school
system in Florida and, as such, was
teaching a class on bullying. And, no,
I was not the bully! She had escaped
from. Hungary in 1956, followingthe ‘.

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failed Hungarian Revolution, and
arrived in Canada knowing very little
English. She was different and not ac-
cepted because of it. In 1957, we met as
classmates and became instant lifelong
friends. She would tell her students
that, apparently, I was the one who
had made the difference for her by
reaching out. I was the first Canadian
friend that she had made in her new
life. She still had a different look about
her at the time, wearing old-fashioned
European-style

as I could stuff in. We have shared all
of the milestones of our lives together,
whether in person or in spirit. We both
have made other best friendships over
the years, by opening ourselves up to
new people and new relationships.

We have moved forward, both physi-
cally—neither of us is in Montreal any
longer—and emotionally: husbands,
children, loss of grandparents and
parents, but we still retain and treasure
our connectedness to each other.

 

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Why am I writing
about this? Relation-
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us—family, friends,
religion, traditions, and
history. These all form

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Jews and the Supreme Court:
The case for Ms. Kagan

It’s not the case that Jews invented
justice; there are codes of law from
Mesopotamia that date from 1,000
years before Moses’ time. I will,
however, claim that we invented
the idea of equal justice for all
men regardless of social station
(and even a modicum of justice for
women).

Despite our primacy in the field
of jurisprudence, the first Jew to
be appointed to the US. Supreme
Court—a mere

to hold the post of solicitor gen-
eral and was, until she left to join
Obama, the first woman to serve as
dean of the Harvard Law School.

Clearly, she has the intellect to

do the job, but already people on
the Left and the Right are worry-
ing she’s too liberal or not liberal
enough. I think that’s a good sign.

Right-wingers decry the judicial
activism of the Left, thinking back
to the days of Chief Justice Earl
Warren and the pro—civil rights
actions of his court. They conve-

 

140 years after
this country’s
founding—was
Louisville’s Louis
Brandeis. So far
six other Jews
have served: Felix
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of Supreme Court justice.... [A] person
who subordinates his/her personal
ideology or religious views to a careful
and balanced evaluation of the law as
it applies in each case.

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min Cardozo (also
the first Hispanic!) Arthur Cold-
berg, Abe Fortas, Stephen Breyer,
wand Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Many
people think that Brandeis was the
best justice ever and that Fortas
was the worst. All of them, howev—
er—as well as the current nominee,
Elena Kagan—were nominated by
Democratic presidents. I find that
significant, but it’s not my point for
this little essay.

Kagan’s personal politics are obvi—
ously Democratic. As a Princeton
student she got drunk when Eliza-
beth Holtzman lost her senate race
to Alphonse d’Amato. She served
in the Clinton administration as
well as the current Obama admin-
istration. She’s the first woman

Marshall. (Since
l live in the South new, I will draw
a discreet veil of silence over the
Dred Scot decision of 1857.)
I don’t want a liberal justice, just as
I don’t want a conservative justice.
I want a person who can inter— ‘
pret fairly what the law presently
requires even if she doesn’t agree
with the present requirements.
It’s sort of like being a professor
who is able to give good grades to
students whose personal politics he
disagrees with; believe me, I’ve had
quite a few of those, and I venture
to guess that Professor Kagan has,
too.

I hope, in fact, that Dean Kagan be-
comes the prototype for a new kind
of Supreme Court justice—indeed,

for a judge at any level—and that
is a person who subordinates his /
her personal ideology or religious
views to a careful and balanced
evaluation of the law as it applies
in each case. I am, of course, a little
concerned that she’s a Mets fan.

Speaking of sports, I’m an Al Davis
follower. He’s the managing gen-
eral partner of the Oakland Raid-
ers football team and, by the way,
also Jewish. Drafting people for his
team, he doesn’t look for kids who
have played this position or that,

' but for the best athletes. They are

the ones who can best learn to play
the position they are put in.

In the past 40 years, and especially
in the past ten years, our country
has become ever more

Oh, and

as to the
innuendo
attending
the fact that
she is 50
and unmar-
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or because of the lasting impression of bat brides, have to write. Mentor, mensch, teacher, Anita was always working to prepare ,8
a particular role model. My choice of a ate delicious and friend: Anita Mersack, our first for her kids. Just two weeks before her t10’
career in Jewish communal service had dinners, and grade teacher for over 35 years, was death, Anita and I were on the phone E;
no relation to my educational pursuits in sang Hebrew all of these things and much more. planning for next year. She was one of Sui

high school or undergraduate studies. I songs long Anita was a superb teacher because the first teachers to arrive on Sunday
did have a role model, bUt the role model after we had she loved her students, she always morning and one of the last to leave He
was not a person. It was an institution. finished our meals. Spontaneous dancing wanted to try new ideas, and she spent (unless there was a UK basketball for
It was the Jew1sh communal overnight around the dining hall WOUId inevitably a great deal of time preparing to teach game, in which case Anita would dress 501
camp. accompany thesmgmg. After serv1ces on her kids. It is clear that Anita loved her in Kentucky blue and leave promptly VeV
. Saturday mornings, we could spend time students. In Anita’s classroom, there at noon so that she could get to the WP
When my SlSter and I were 10’ our relaxmg WIth our friends, v151t1ng Sb- were no ”bad” students She devel- ame) Her detailed lesson lans will nai
parents thought it was time to send us lings in other divisions of camp, having 0 ed W t h kid ' h th g ' d 1 f p th'
to an overnight camp for eight weeks picnic lunches, and spending the after- p ays 0 mac. 5 w ere ey serve as mo e s or years to come. 1
instead of to the private day camps we noons in activities of our choice or at the were. She had pat1ence for every type . . yow
had been attending. They chose a Jewish waterfront. Shabbat always ended with a 0f student. Her klds knew that she Finally, An1ta was a superb teacher or
communal camp serendipitously—prob— beautiful Havdall ah service, which I had loved them and responded to her love because of who she was. In a famous 8“
ably because it was geographically closer never witnessed in my synagogue. with a great deal of affection in return. Hasidic story it is said, “I did not come :2:

than others they had been considering.
Their choice proved an excellent one for
me and had a tremendous impact on my
adult life.

I attended for many years. I was a coun—
selor and a staff member through college.
When I was ready to graduate, I asked;
my camp director what I could do that
would be like working in a Jewish camp
year ’round. He suggested that I seek a
position in a JCC. I ended up in the teen
department of the JCC in Philadelphia
and in their resident summer camp. In
later years, when I was working part
time, my young children grew up in the
summer camp.

Spending decades in summer camp was
not an example of the ”Peter Pan Com-
plex” or not wanting to grow up. The
athaction was the

Recent research on the effect of Jewish
camping on young people indicates that
adults who had gone to Jewish overnight
camps have a higher rate of observance,
greater affiliation with the Jewish com-
munity, and a lower rate of intermar-
riage This research has been sponsored
by Brandeis University, the Foundation ”
for Jewish Camp, and the Ramah Camps.
Some of that data can be found on the
Foundation for Jewish Camp’s web-

site. Many of my colleagues in Jewish
communal service and in the rabbinate
who attended Jewish resident camps as
campers and counselors agree that these
experiences influenced their career deci-
sions.

Part of my reason for writing about
camping now is that as you read this,
we will be in our

 

Anita loved to try new ideas and new
curricula. Two years ago, we intro-
duced a new curriculum for first grade
and Anita delighted in testing out the
new materials. When we introduced
more Hebrew into the first grade cur-
riculum, her students were learning

all types 6f Hebrew Words and songs.
When we started our school garden,
Anita’s kids were out planting and
weeding and harvesting. When we
incorporated walking and exercise into
our Sunday mornings, Anita was out
there with her kids walking around the
block. After a good walk, Anita always
found time in her classroom for read—
ing and books. She kept up to date on
new authors and children's literature
and made sure that our school had

the latest Jewish books for our library.

to the Maggid of Mezeritch to learn
interpretations of Torah from him but
to watch how he tied his shoelaces.”
Our children learned how to be kind
and generous and patient just by being
with Anita. Another rabbi once said
that a student is like someone who
goes into a perfume-maker’ 5 shop.
"Even though he did mgake any-
thing or give any thing, nevertheless he
takes out with him a wonderful scent.
So, too, anyone who ’walks’ with the
righteous—he takes with him some of
their good ways and deeds.” Anita will
be greatly missed by all of us. How-
ever, she will never stop teaching us.
Hopefully, we can continue to make
her good ways and deeds part of our
lives. I feel privileged to have had the
opportunity to know and learn from
Anita. m

 

second week at Camp
Shalom. I am sure
that we will have
another wonderful
season. The other
reason is that I would
like parents and
grandparents to begin

joy of living in a
dynamic Jewish
community. The
values in camp
were different
from those of the
other ten months
of the year. Posses-
sions didn’t matter

Recent research on the effect of
Jewish camping on young people
indicates that adults who had gone
to Jewish overnight camps have a
higher rate of observance, greater af-
filiation with the Jewish community,
and a lower rate of intermarriage.

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as much. Televi-

sion and computers didn’t get in the way
of human interaction. Religious services
were outdoors and led by staff whose
voices were accompanied by guitars

and who encouraged group participa-
tion and discussion. Teenagers learned